Polish pm announces anti-Putin shield

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Polish pm announces anti-Putin shield

The Polish prime minister said on Friday that the government is working on an anti-Putin shield to protect the national economy from the effects of Russia's war on Ukraine.

Mateusz Morawiecki told a press conference that the shield will introduce anti- inflation instruments, protective measures for the labour market and a support scheme for enterprises that did business with Russia before the war.

He said that one of the main goals of the shield package will be to reduce Poland's inflation, which has been rising to higher levels than expected.

The shield also contained instruments designed to de-Russianise the Polish economy, and weaken its dependence on Russian oil, gas and coal, according to Morawiecki.

In order to detach the Polish economy from Russian fossil fuels, the government will channel over PLN 3 billion EUR 640 million into the national gas operator Gaz-System, which runs the major gas pipelines in Poland and is responsbile for gas transmission. He stated that Poland had other energy security mainstays like the Baltic Pipe gasline and the President Lech Kaczynski LNG Terminal in Swinoujcie.